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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC has been at Inspired Teaching since K and is heading to middle school next year. The Principal and Assistant Principals are all stellar. According to my DC, the new school principal has been telling kids to brace themselves for next year because it will be more challenging. He has been pushing for more rigor since he came to the school. We’re interested to see how that will look next year. [/quote]

8th Grade Student here.

I have been at ITDS since pk-3 and here are my main takeaways for anyone wondering about the school. First of all, the Teachers are VERY GOOD. They don't assign too much work, but they teach you very efficiently. There has been a TON of turnover teacher wise, but they always seem to find a teacher as good or even better than the one that left. Work wise they definitely have added more homework this year, last year I had at most 45 minutes of homework a WEEK. now I have 3 hours. It is still not a ton of homework though. Something I have noticed is the culture really depends on the grade and the group of kids. There are a lot of students that come in and do not try to do their work and instead pick fights with people. In fact the other day this kid got in a fight with another kid because she bumped into him. Thankfully he only got suspended because he started it for no reason. This was the same kid that on the MAP test entered random answers to finish it faster. Some kids do not care about their grades at all, but by the middle of 7th grade most kids realize it matters. The school offers lots of extensions on homework and projects. The biggest problem I see is the culture getting worse, but the admins have been working very hard to fix that. There are definitely culture issues in the 7th grade of the school from what I can tell. Lots of drama, arguments and sometimes even fights. BUT that does not mean the 7th grade is bad, most of the 7th graders I have met are very kind but a few of them just piss me off. The extracurriculars are pretty good, it is pretty easy to make the team (heck I'm a WR normally and somehow I'm the QB for the school flag football team) and everyone seems to enjoy their extracurriculars. As long as you try as hard as you can at this school you will get good grades, I have to focus on grades but I never stress out about them. And MOST kids there are very kind and welcoming.

Also if the grammar, spelling paragraphing or whatever was screwed up on this it is because I wrote this in a rush.[/quote]

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